Saturday, March 7, 2026

History

 

An Insight

 

Offbeat Humor

 

I see wonderful things

 

Data Talks

 

A Conversation between Frisian and Old English (with captions) with Graham Scheper and History With Hilbert

A Conversation between Frisian and Old English (with captions) with Graham Scheper and History With Hilbert.


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At the Moulin Rouge, circa 1892-95 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

At the Moulin Rouge, circa 1892-95 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)






















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But one of the silliest things is to allow the planning horizon to crowd out the other two, and I think many times I did that.

From Former Sen. Ben Sasse on laughing his way through terminal cancer by Steve Inskeep.

SASSE: So I have metastasized Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Around Halloween, I started having all this back pain, and I was just pretty sure that I had pulled a bunch of abdominal muscles. And we did some full-body scans on December 14, and my docs called me back in and were beating around the bush. And I said, please be blunt with me. I want some hard fact. Give me a truth. And they said, all right, Ben Sasse's torso is chock-full of tumors.

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SASSE: How do you live a life of gratitude to God? By trying to love your neighbor and especially those that are most proximate to you. So I am blessed to have Melissa, my wife of 31 years. And our daughters are 24 and 22, and our son just turned 14, and he feels like he needs a dad for a little while longer. So I want to knock him upside the head and wrestle with him and tell him how much I love him and tell him stuff I wish I had done differently in my life. And I want to do a little bit of thinking, reading, writing and talking.

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SASSE: I think we all live on three time horizons. Daily, at the end of your workday and as the sun is setting, can you say that you did meaningful work that day and can you break bread with people you love? No. 2 is kind of a planning horizon. What decisions should you make over the next 30 days that'll pay off over the next 30 years? And then an eternal souls kind of time horizon. And all three of them matter. But one of the silliest things is to allow the planning horizon to crowd out the other two, and I think many times I did that. I think in my 20s and 30s, I spent way too many nights per month on the road and had too few family dinners and too many nights in airports. But I had been repenting to my family for five or six years about some of my workaholism in the past, so this is not some deathbed conversion. But I'm, in a much more intentional way, reflecting on that with them now.

Friday, March 6, 2026

History

 

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